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240 The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Tani Jantsang is best known as the coauthor of
eleven historical monographs on the world’s many
manifestations of the left-hand path. She formed
the Satanic Reds along with a few others, including
noted Danish Satanists Ole Wolf and Hr. Vad. Her
reputation within the Satanic community, along
with free membership, gave Satanic Reds all the
fuel it needed to become one of the larger organizations
of Satanists in the world when it went
online in 2000. Still, Satanic Reds turns as many
people away as it invites in.
Some within Satanism look with absolute bewilderment
at the Satanic Reds. Especially in post–cold
war America, people equate communism as the evil
enemy. Even Satanists aren’t completely immune to
their cultural programming. Members of the
Satanic Reds see is this way: Just as devil-worshiper is
used to describe anyone outside of mainstream religion,
communist is a slander thrown toward anyone
who is willing to stand up to the Christian Coalition
and champion programs that benefit hard-working
people. To quote Tani Jantsang, “Anyone who is
TOLERANT is labeled a Red! Anyone who is in favor of
women’s rights, feminism, gay rights, and against
racism is called a Red! In fact, anyone in favor of
tolerance toward alternative religions is called a Red
or a ‘pinko commie.’ This is not new! And so, we call
ourselves REDS!”
—Kaiden Fox
For Further Reading:
Satanic Reds website:
http://www.geocities.com/satanicreds/
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
This Hammer Studios 1973 production attempts
to bring together two stock B-movie themes
Hammer was famous for: vampire movies and
devil-worship movies. The result of this blend is a
lame film—even by Hammer standards—in
which Count Dracula orchestrates a Satanic cult
composed of politicians and scientists, with the
goal of producing a deadly viral plague.
Satanic Ritual Abuse
A young teenage girl, impregnated during a Satanic
ritual, is forcibly delivered of her nearly term baby,
forced to ritually kill the child and then to
cannibalize its heart as cult members watch. Another
girl, a small child, is sealed inside the cavity of a
disemboweled animal and “rebirthed” by her cultic
captors during a ceremony. A preschool class is
systematically sexually, emotionally, and physically
abused by part of a nationwide, nearly invincible
network of Satanic pedophiles and pornographers. A
young girl is thrown into an electrified cage with
wolves and ritually tortured to deliberately produce a
“wolf personality,” part of her multiple personality
disorder (MPD).
—Bob Passantino and Gretchen Passantino
Stories like these were not only circulating, but
were actually being taken seriously during the late
1980s and early 1990s at the peak of the Satanic
ritual abuse (SRA) scare (sometimes referred to as
the “Satanic panic”). During these years, the
reality of a vast, underground network of evil
Satanists abusing children and others was
accepted by significant segments of the law
enforcement community as well as by numerous
therapists. Less responsible members of the mass
media, attracted by the sensationalism of these
claims, avidly promoted the idea. The SRA scare
began a sharp decline after about 1992. By the
mid-1990s public opinion had shifted, and soon
the SRA perspective had been rejected by almost
everyone except conservative Christians.
Because the basic notions underlying SRA derive
from Christianity, many analysts have pinned the
blame for the Satanic panic on conservative
Christians. Thus, for example, Satanism in America
(1989), a report conducted under the auspices of the
ultrasecularist Committee for the Scientific
Examination of Religion concluded, in part:
It is now abundantly clear that a small
minority of ultra-right-wing fundamentalists
and evangelicals, believing in both the reality
of Satan as a personality and that the
Tribulation is at hand, are responsible for the
misinterpretation, the dissemination and in
some instances the outright fabrication of
“facts” to support what is essentially a
religious doctrine. These people are not
researchers in pursuit of truth, but crusaders
against the Antichrist whom they believe a
priori is living now among us. We submit that